The construction of gender identity: A semiotic analysis

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Correa, Deodrin. (2009). The construction of gender identity: A semiotic analysis. In In J. Zajda and K. Freeman (Ed.). Race, Ethnicity and Gender in Education: Cross-Cultural Understandings pp. 183 - 194 Springer.
AuthorsCorrea, Deodrin
EditorsJ. Zajda and K. Freeman
Abstract

Gender is considered an axis of social order. Its categorisation into masculinity and femininity is socially constructed and maintained in everyday life through major social institutions (Clark and Page, 2005; Mackie, 1994). Advertising, as an aspect of the mass media, is a major social and economic institution through which notions of masculinity and femininity are promoted at a symbolic level (Gilbert and Taylor, 1991; Goldman, 1992). It is suggested that the role of advertising is to maintain cultural hegemony through providing us with socially constructed ways of viewing and making sense of our world (Goldman, 1992). It has been remarked that students may be learning more social science from television advertisements than from any other formal or informal educational setting.

Page range183 - 194
Year2009
Book titleRace, Ethnicity and Gender in Education: Cross-Cultural Understandings
PublisherSpringer
SeriesGlobalisation, Comparative Education and Policy Research 3
ISBN9781402097386
Research GroupSchool of Education
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